I’m Only Human

Posted by Bill Hunton on Dec 20, 2011 in Daily Bread | 1 comment

How does God work in the world? I have wondered about that almost my entire life. How does he accomplish his plans? We all know that God can do anything, right? He created the entire universe. He drew the stars across the sky, set the planets in orbits, and created the invisible forces that literally hold us together. Then he stooped down and scooped us up from the dust and made us after His own image. We are weak, we sin, we get sick, we die, and he still depends on us. Why?

He could let his angels do all the work, sort of like a supervisor or manager tells employees what they are to do. I mean, wherever the Bible says, “the Angel of the Lord…” it usually means trouble for somebody, or a big announcement like the Virgin Birth, or a couple cities are getting burned up because they were really, really bad. But the angels seem more like messengers, big powerful ones none the less – they don’t seem to discuss much with the Father.

In these verses we see how God means it to be. He created the earth and then put us in charge of it according to Genesis. But the Fall, messed things up. Still, he puts his “treasures in earthen vessels” (that’d be us), and then wants us to make things happen. So how do we do that?

Elijah knew he was on a mission for God, and he was led to pray. James says he was just like us. He was only human; a man with the same passions as any other. Yet, James says, he prayed, and things happened the way God wanted them to.

We are engaged in a great battle. We Believers are taking back this world, house by house. When we pray, fully engaged with Him, seeking to do only His will, knowing we are on mission, knowing what the mission is, knowing we are weak, and knowing that all our deeds are like filthy rags, and therefore only praying in the power and authority of Jesus, then our prayers will be nothing less than divine.